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[twistedingenue]

@madmaudlingoes replied to your post “Finally have the Inkle loom all set up for my next...”:

Looooooom! And I love the colors!

​Me too! Particularly since it's just inexpensive cotton yarn from Meijer of all places. I can't wait to see how it weaves up.

[snowbryneich]

List 10 of your favorite characters from 10 different fandoms, then tag 10 people.

Tagged by @lodessa thanks!

Not in any particular order except maybe the top 👀

1) Jacaerys Velaryon from House of the Dragon

2) Elizabeth Swann from Pirates of the Caribbean

3) Simon Tam from Firefly

4) Delenn from Babylon 5

5) Kira Nerys from Star Trek Deep Space Nine

6) Ronan Dex from Stargate Atlantis

7) Lord John Grey from Outlander

8) Moon from Books of the Raksura

9) Elliott Schafer from In Other Lands

10) William Lawrence from the Temeraire series

Tagging

@mirabellemoira @wyrmwhispers @madmaudlingoes @elyone @princessvelaryon @norrington-hell @apirateslifeforme123 @shahfla @comradekarin @beatrice-babe

[cailynwrites]

A Very Pairy Christmas Masterlist - 31+ podfics for December

Week 1: ❄️ Snow ❄️

Warmth by @givereadersahug (James x Lily x Severus)

Knitting Hats for Puppies by @arielsakura (Harry x Bill)

Convergence on a Winter's Night by @inmyownlittlecorner5 (Ted Tonks x Severus Snape)

Snowdrifts by @indreamsink (Draco x Hermione)

Sock Snowmen by @givereadersahug (Harry x Severus)

The Great Biscuit Calamity of 1978, And Other Such Disasters by @lunapwrites (Sirius x Remus)

Snowdeer Charms and Concussions by @arielsakura (Tom x Harry)

Week 2: 🎵 Caroling 🎵

Sorry It Took Me So Long by @arielsakura (Luna x Harry)

With Love by @smallsherbert (Pansy x Hermione)

Fast the Night Is Fading by @snapesnailtape (Severus x Lily)

Sing My Song (For You) by @theselittleponders (Rose x Scorpius)

Draco, Merrily on High by @blythe-ly (Draco x Harry)

Remus Lupin and the Christmas Snail by @innermostplanet (Remus Tonks)

Beautiful the rose that in your garden is by porcelainsalt (Luna x Astoria)

Week 3: 🎄 Mistletoe 🎄

'tis the damn season (Pansy's version) by @the-francakes (Ron x Pansy)

Escaping Fred Weasley's Magical Mistletoe by @ptwritesmore (Fred x Hermione)

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by @siriusly-sapphic (Narcissa x Dorcas)

Mistletoe Rescue by @indreamsink (Draco x Hermione x Theo)

Rocking Around the Christmas Tree by @ptwritesmore (Ron x Daphne)

Festive Mood by @paulamcg (Molly x Amelia)

House Unity by @tryslora (Draco x Neville)

Week 4: 🎁 Gifts 🎁

The Pink Prank/Prankmas Eve by @danpuff-ao3 (Draco x Ron and other pairings)

Fulfilling of the Secret Wish by smirkingcat (Draco x Remus)

Unlocking Christmas Joy by @ptwritesmore (Harry x Hermione)

The Seventh Annual Weasley White Erumpent Exchange by @constitutionalweasleymonarchy (many pairings!)

A Non-Christmas Non-Romance by kelly_chambliss (Snape x McGonagall)

Adeste Fideles by @madmaudlingoes (Draco x Ron)

you make me feel good by @facingthenorthwind (Albus x Scorpius)

Week 5: 🥂 New Year's Eve 🥂

snapshots by kitsunerei88 (Percy x Oliver)

The Enchanted Forest by @xslytherclawx-writes (Neville x Regulus)

A Magical New Year's Masquerade by @ptwritesmore (Draco x Hermione)

This Time Next Year by @janieohio (Draco x Harry)

Bonus: 🕎 Hanukkah 🕎

kindling and memory by @leftsidedown (Fleur x Tonks)

[thezonkerdoodle]

SO i just dfound out MARTYN is headcannoned to be polish and and and-

I AM NEVER GIVING HIM BACK!!! >:33333

(storks because i fricking LOVE storks, everyone here knows a stork)

~~ actually inspired for this by amazing fic that gave me brain rot

"Sam nie pojmuję, jak w twe zajdę progi" by Mad_Maudlin on AO3 and @madmaudlingoes on tumblr!!

[shitpost-quote]

"That's the problem with gods; their pleasure and their wrath often look the same."

-Tumblr user madmaudlingoes, about thunderstorms

[ctimenefic]

I was tagged by the lovely @adi-who-is-also-mou to share five songs I've been listening to lately:

Strawberry Blond - Mitski (the ultimate Galex song imo)

labour - Paris Paloma (sometimes I rage)

Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac (peerless. Also brocedes, merthur, mattfoggy, every ship if you try hard enough)

Vienna - Billy Joel (literally never leaves my rotation)

30/90 - Andrew Garfield, tick, tick... BOOM! (I'm 31 and I feel FINE about that)

tagging beloved mutuals @latecomersprivilege + @madmaudlingoes + @bravinto + @strawberry-daiquiris + @intoxicatingimmediacy + @pomegranate-belle + @asofterhibou & anyone else who wants to play!

[sarcasticfina]

Tag people you want to get to know better

Tagged by: @imaginationisveryrapid

Three Ships:

Buck/Eddie (911)

Bonnie/Damon (TVD)

Scott/Malia (TW)

First Ship

i'm sure there was a ton as a kid that i didn't have a label for. the first ship i remember being into was eli/grace in once & again. Would've been right around the time shane west was getting noticed.

Last Song:

revived by derivakat

Last Movie

prey for the devil. twice a month, a friend and me get together, order in dinner and watch a horror movie.

Currently Reading

tonight, i plan to read a scott/malia fanfic, "coming home" by StarBurnedOut (@jealous-rage)

Currently Watching

Poker Face - I've watched 4 episodes so far and I'm really enjoying it. It focuses more on the victims and who they were before they're killed. and charlie cale (natasha lyonne) is just the type of character I love- snarky and seems distant but gets attached easily.

(I'm super behind on 911. I need to fix that.)

Currently Consuming:

popcorn and cream soda. incredibly healthy of me. something we can all aspire to.

Currently Craving:

sleep. which is dumb, because I actually slept in today. but I've had a busy week and some days it just be like that.

Tagging some folks from my notes (but no pressure of course):

i'm tagging the first 10 people i see on my dash, but do not feel obligated to fill it out!!

@absentlyabbie, @napoleanbonafarte, @henswilsons, @dyhlanobrien, @thehungwizard, @aflawedfashion. @yourfavdiabetic, @extasiswings, @madmaudlingoes, @azraeldoesnotdispute

[proficientatfreakness]

I posted 12,405 times in 2022

19 posts created (0%)

12,386 posts reblogged (100%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@mystrothedefender

@thesweetpianowritingdownmylife

@theluckythreeleafclover

@madmaudlingoes

@accidental-child

I tagged 1,041 of my posts in 2022

#ofmd - 299 posts

#our flag means death - 237 posts

#ofmd spoilers - 204 posts

#our flag means death spoilers - 136 posts

#ofmd meta - 83 posts

#stede bonnet - 62 posts

#ofmd fanart - 52 posts

#ed teach - 50 posts

#gentlebeard - 44 posts

#blackbonnet - 42 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#i wouldve screencapped it all because every line is like a clown pulling infinite handkerchiefs but it's them just pulling wig after wig fro

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Dream and Hob Halloween date

Fics coming soon. I can feel it.

And after that, Dreamling christmas rom-coms.

40 notes - Posted September 30, 2022

#4

Stede’s first appearance as the Gentleman Pirate is all in pearly white and Ed’s last as Blackbeard is clad head to toe in black leather

I’m having a stroke

46 notes - Posted April 8, 2022

#3

Black Pete: To Blackbeard, killing's just like breathing.

Stede *unconvinced*

Mary: Love is just like breathing

Stede *awed smile*

60 notes - Posted April 2, 2022

#2

No but listen

What if Black Pete really was on Blackbeard’s crew and that’s why he’s the only one everyone hits?

The way he drops his guard again after having been hit already by Ivan

See the full post

331 notes - Posted April 20, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Mary, Alma and Louis are the Land, Stede is the Sea

355 notes - Posted June 2, 2022

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[sailor-cerise]

[IDs: Tumblr posts:

Jolene33rpm

me, trying to spell something in french: uhhhhhh i think that's enough vowels the french language: youe fooule.... youe insouelente cowèurde

nazerine

I love japanese bc it's so regular and logical. eg, kore this, sore that, dore = which koko here, soko there, doko = where koitsu = this person, soitsu = that person, doitsu = germany Source: categorical-abstract-ml

futureevilscientist

confession: in the Russian alphabet, the letter x is pronounced like a hard h so whenever I see a phrase like "Sorry for your loss xoxo", instead of hugs and kisses my brain always briefly interprets it as "Sorry for your loss HOHOHO" like some jolly Santa Schadenfreude laughter there Source: futureevilscientist

assassinregrets

im just the cherokee language has a verb tense that specifically notes the exclusion of a person in the conversation so there's i'm going, you're going, we're going, and we're going (but not you) i love it

madmaudlingoes

This is called "clusivity" and it's found a bunch of languages, including Chechen, Vietnamese, Samoan, and Quechua.

spinningyarns

Some languages just side-eye harder than others. Source: assassinregrets

lord-kitschener

Polish: yo dawg we heard u like the letter z so we put some z's in ur z's so u can Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz

relativelylessimportant

Z is only worth one point in the Polish version of Scrabble. This sounds like a joke, but is actually true. Source: lord-kitschener

heatmor

irish is such a shady language because hello is "dia duit" but directly translated it means "god be with you" and when someone says hello back they say "dia is muire duit" which means "god and mary be with you"... its like "i see your god and i raise you the holy virgin whatcha gonna do bout it bitch" Source: cradily

[Screenshot of tweet by "Mark Magumpkin" @/markedly, in a Tumblr post]

Spanish: The h is silent English: Many letters can be silent French: All letters are meaningless, every living thing is born without reason

/End IDs.]

tumblr: on languages

[cailynwrites]

Adeste Fideles by @madmaudlingoes - a Podfic

Day 27 of a Very Pairy Podfic Christmas

It's more Dron! A bit of a darker take than @danpuff-ao3's funny little Pink Prank fic, but just as sweet. Ron is a supportive boyfriend and Draco is trying so hard, even when the other Weasleys aren't making it easier for him. I really think these two kids can make it work!

🎁 Adeste Fideles 🎁 by @madmaudlingoes Rating: M Tags: Presents, Jealousy, Grief/Mourning Length: 32:48

Listen on AO3

[the-invisible-queer]

https://www.tumblr.com/madmaudlingoes/764096449139048448?source=share

cool info about weather and also muppets

They are the true MVPs

Also

I'm obsessed with the Miss Piggy nose art

[sunsetschloe]

"That's the problem with gods; their pleasure and their wrath often look the same"

--@madmaudlingoes

[caught-in-the-infinite]

I posted 1,145 times in 2022

That's 462 more posts than 2021!

12 posts created (1%)

1,133 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@boasamishipper

@unwise-augur

@madmaudlingoes

@hacash

@randomfandomss

I tagged 247 of my posts in 2022

#our flag means death - 74 posts

#oh tumblr - 36 posts

#izzy hands - 16 posts

#goncharov - 12 posts

#stranger things - 12 posts

#art - 11 posts

#uk politics - 11 posts

#black sails - 11 posts

#unreality - 10 posts

#supernatural - 7 posts

Longest Tag: 106 characters

#is this like the personality test where everyone got the same answer but thougth t applied direct to them?

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Goncharov, tumblr, twitter and the things that were lost along the way

I have become obsessed with the idea that the tumblr meme of Goncharov is more about the destruction of Twitter than anything else. Tumblr itself has sailed so close to the wind of being shut down and gone forever and now we are watching across the river as the library of alexandria burns. If Twitter goes there will be an unimaginably huge amount of data and connections lost. History that can no longer be eaily referenced and referred to.

What better metephor could there be than a 1973 movie that we are told by everyone that is incredible, that has had a huge impact - still felt today - on every gangster movie since, that is a formative work of at the very start of the careers of some of the biggest names in the business...and you cannot see it. No one can see it. This piece of art can only be view through someone else describing it to you. It can be seen in gifs and quotes sandwiched between other asthetic images.

If you didn't see Goncharov at the cinema in 1973 then you are never going to be able to watch it. If you are not on Twitter now then, chances are, you never will be.

No wonder the tag line is about time running out.

11 notes - Posted November 21, 2022

#4

I've been having ideas about how season 2 Our Flag Means Death is going to handle Ed finding out about Stedes "death" and while there probably is time within the 10 episodes for Ed to grieve his relationship, find out Stede is dead, greive Stede and then find out Stede is still alive before/at the reunion it feels like a lot for the minimal run time. Also, because I'm obsessed with Izzy Hands so this is also about him.

###

So about episode 3 Izzy decideds that the Kraken has become too much and much to his eternal disgust that the only way to get things back on an even keel is to fetch back the captains sweetheart.

Assuming that Stede is a moron and will have simply returned home after dumping Ed that's where he starts. Only to find the gravestone. He is very pissed off at this revelation and is seen by some local in the process of wishing he had been the one to do the deed.

He returns to the ship and doesn't say anything. Alternatively telling Ed that Stede returned home to his wife and will never leave there again.

5 Episodes (and several months pass), during which there are increasingly close calls where Ed and Stede keep missing each other.

Blackbeard and crew are raiding a ship where someone on board is very excited to meet the captain whom his good friend Stede sailed with, for just a little bit. Here is where Ed finds out Stede is dead. Ed also finds out that there was a pirate that turned up at the gravestones. But there has now been enough time pass that these two events are now much more closely related and perhaps that pirate was turning up to make sure "his enemy" was dead, that perhaps the story had been embosed such that the pirate had been driving the carridge that ran over Stede.

And who was he, Ed might ask.

Didn't get a name but he was all in black, with a beard and had an X tattoo'd right here, he points underneath his eye.

Such a fury has never been seen on the Kraken before.

Despite protestations he fully believes that Izzy has killed Stede and Ed wont kill him but he'll certaily leave him in a position which very shortly he will definitely die a very painful death.

Ed leaves to go get a drink at a bar.

And Stede sits down opposite him "You're a hard man to catch up with."

###

I don't think this is how it will go. Too much is put on Izzy here - just cause he's blorbo from my shows doesn't make him a main character. But I like the idea of Izzy being so profoundly greatful that Stede is still alive. Even possibly being happy to see him.

Also I don't really see Season2 Izzy taking it upon himself to go fetch Stede back. Or Ed sending him off to see what happened to Stede. I like the idea of him being confused for Blackbeard in town though - especially for when Ed does turn up later to "meet the family".

Izzy is saved in the end. Maybe just kicked off the ship for good.

11 notes - Posted April 18, 2022

#3

13 notes - Posted March 29, 2022

#2

Izzy the spewer, let him look...Captain left him in charge once, and we were in choppy seas, and he spewed everywhere and he shit himself too. Lots of shit.

Fang

OK, time for some baseless speculation because I’ve got Izzy Hands brain rot.

Facts: Fang is not afraid of Izzy, he is afraid of Blackbeard.

Assumptions: The rest of Blackbeards crew feels the same way.  And Izzys time in charge of Blackbeards crew went about as well as his time in charge of Stede’s crew.

Hypothesis: Someone tried to poison Izzy and send him off to doggy heaven while the boss wasn’t around. Probably throw him overboard during the choppy seas for good measure.

But Izzy’s a cockroach and survived however much rat poison they tried to feed him. The crew aren’t going to tell Blackbeard they tried to kill his second in command and Izzy certainly isn’t going to offer up this humiliating story of his time in charge.

59 notes - Posted April 22, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

See the full post

192 notes - Posted August 19, 2022

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[the-invisible-queer]

https://www.tumblr.com/madmaudlingoes/760833058918318081?source=share

which Beatles song is being referenced here?

The song is "When I'm Sixty Four"

But bro the seething hatred I felt for that cunt when I read that post

I just hate her so fucking much

Let her die in a jet crash

[aurorasulphur]

I posted 12,469 times in 2022

That's 6,442 more posts than 2021!

23 posts created (0%)

12,446 posts reblogged (100%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@madmaudlingoes

@amarguerite

@dragonsthough101

@elfwreck

@quarra

I tagged 1,984 of my posts in 2022

#the locked tomb - 595 posts

#nona spoilers - 299 posts

#batfam - 278 posts

#peak ‘boys will be boys’ - 184 posts

#nona the ninth - 119 posts

#goncharov - 92 posts

#everything everywhere all at once - 73 posts

#typical girls will be girls - 61 posts

#children are weird - 56 posts

#unreality - 48 posts

Longest Tag: 129 characters

#oh and six seasons at a summer camp where one season i lived in four different cabins but the last 2 seasons i didn’t move at all

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Hello friends I would like to know: did you cry at all while reading Nona the Ninth? If so, which parts made you cry? If you can explain, *why* did that part make you cry?

23 notes - Posted September 17, 2022

#4

Re: Kiriona and Ianthe and their secret handshake, I would like to direct you to this line on wikipedia in its article on Mithraism, the ancient religion “centered on Mithras” which worshiped at places called mithraeum (s.)/mithraea (pl.):

Initiates called themselves syndexioi, those "united by the handshake".

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism

32 notes - Posted September 20, 2022

#3

I’ve already seen some people with ARC access state their intention to post spoileriffic Nona the Ninth stuff to their queue for 00:01 on September 13th in their time zone, and I would like to request that you 1) not do that or 2) if you must, wait to give people at least 24 hours, for the love of all that is holy.

Getting an ARC is an enormous privilege, and you have waited this long to yell in public, so you can give everyone else some basic fucking common decency and hold off until they actually have a chance to read the damn thing unspoiled.

36 notes - Posted August 10, 2022

#2

My questions after reading Nona, in the hopes that perhaps someone else knows the answers or has theories:

1. whose souls did John put in Ulysses and Titania?

2. did everyone’s souls go back into their original bodies when he did the resurrection?

3. Is Paul a brand-new baby soul, (and thus Cam and Pal are fully themselves in the River) or is Paul shavings off of both Cam and Pal, meaning C&P are not actually whole within the River?

4. Why was John obsessed with “the maternity problem”? (I get Mercy’s whole thing about not requiring termination for people who were pregnant but I still don’t understand the actual problem John was agonizing over.)

5. What is the significance of Anastasia’s bones being inside the Tomb? Especially with that weird phrase about how her bones weren’t her?

6. What cradle creature did Nona draw? (My gut instinct was elephant but the legs comment is fucking me up.)

7. Why would a dog need arboreal legs??? How does an extra set of legs do ANYTHING to help with climbing trees???

8. What is the significance of the prison above the Ninth?

9. Why does Nona have a hard time eating? Alecto only eats when John does, and it’s implied that they’re eating raw meat. (I still stand by my cannibalism theory but acknowledge it could be the cows.)

10. Is Noodle’s name Noodle or does Noodle’s name *mean* Noodle?

(Questions 11 and 12 were answered by non tumblr folks before I transferred the list here.)

13.a. I’m so lost as to why someone had to die to open the tomb?

13.b. And why someone (Pyrrha or Paul?) said that this couldn’t be spoofed?

13.c. If someone had to die then HOW DID TEN YEAR OLD HARROW OPEN IT?

14. Why did Jod’s eyes change TO the yellow? (And how the fuck did that get passed down to Gideon?)

15. When did Jod’s eyes become the eclipses?

16. How were the dead bodies John’s batteries?

17. Based on Nona’s top and bottom brain recognizing the tower, I think we the reader should be able to figure out what the tower is. So what the fuck is the tower?

49 notes - Posted September 19, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

PSA: if you are trying to save old FFN fics by getting them to AO3, the way to do that is to contact the authors and ask them to crosspost.

DO NOT upload other people’s work to AO3. That’s against the TOS.

Saving things to your local machine for personal use is obviously fine, go ham with that!!!!

190 notes - Posted September 20, 2022

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[copperbadge]

Monstrous Sculptures

I saved these asks up to post together because it was hilarious to me that I posted a monstrous sculpture and got these, in order, unbroken by any other asks :D 

drivemetogeek asked:

Not at the same scale in terms of size, but surpassing all the odd hybrid animal sculptures this far in terms of creepiness, check out Rona Pondick's Otter. It's in a sculpture garden that I absolutely love, but I tend to block out that it's there until I'm about 6 feet away and start to feel creeped out and then remember what I'm about to encounter.

Well, this is all very Fullmetal Alchemist. 

[ID: An image of a metallic sculpture in an outdoor setting; it has the legs, lower body, and tail of an otter standing upright, but during the torso the creature changes into the shape of a human, with otterlike arms but a fully human face that looks extremely depressed to be there.]

ifiknewiwouldtellyou asked:

It's not as horrifyingly infuriating as Posankka, but have you seen the Vancouver cat butt sculpture? I have yet to determine whether its appearance is intentional or not.

I had a google and all I could find was this one, which I imagine is what you’re talking about but which Redditors have identified as a dog butt sculpture: 

[ID: A large wooden sculpture outside of a grocery store; it looks from this angle like the back end of a domestic pet who is digging in a pile of stones. It is mostly black and features an uplifted tail, under which is a pale circle with a dot in the middle, which does make it look like the butt of a cat or dog. Veterinarians are invited to comment on which it might be.] 

madmaudlingoes asked:

On the subject of potentially upsetting sculpture, look up Homunculus loxodontus (aka Zhdun) by Margriet van Breevoort.

Supposedly this embodies the emotions of people waiting in doctors’ offices but I’m pretty sure it’s just a straight up muppet left over from the original Star Wars trilogy. 

[ID: An outdoor sculpture of a blobby grey humanoid being; instead of legs it simply has a large mass of flesh on which is propped its folded human hands. It has relatively thin arms leading up to slumped, nonexistent shoulders; instead of a human head it has two large dark eyes set on the side of its head and a round snout like an elephant seal.]

If you have weird sculptures to share, please remember to reblog or comment with them, as I’m happy to see them but I don’t post asks sent in response to other asks.